The teams have raised a combined $22,589.60 so far for the PMH Foundation, and CoolEarth.

Sunday 25 March 2012

PMH Foundation

We met again with the team at the PMH Foundation last week, including their marketing and communication guru's, to agree a timetable for our charity, and a launch event for the campaign. The aim is to make both the launch and timetable public in the next few weeks.

Between PMH and ourselves, we have chosen a specific research project to concentrate the charity efforts.  We will be linked to a family with a child that is undergoing treatment at PMH who is part of the research into understanding muscle pathology in children with Cerebral Palsy.  More to come on this over the weeks ahead........

We have had numerous individuals come forward offering their time and advice, and we thank each and  every one for taking an interest, and wanting to be involved. The more interest we generate the more money we make for the PMH. We will be taking you up on those offers (anyone want to wear a bear costume??!!!!!)......The key being to keep the momentum going for the next 15 months lead up to the actual rally.

Friday 23 March 2012

Blankets for all

This week Neil collects a truck load of blankets from Qantas airlines. Many thanks to Qantas and in particular Murray Howard and his team at the Perth airport store. Blankets now taking up 1/2 the spare room!


Sunday 18 March 2012

QANTAS

QANTAS airlines have kindly offered to provide blankets for us to hand out along the route. We now have to figure out how to get the blankets to the UK for the rally start...

Wednesday 14 March 2012

Sponsors

Check out our sponsors....we are working hard to get more sponsorship, so watch this space...

Friday 9 March 2012

Blog amendment

There are now extra pages on the blog!! Sponsors are important, so they have their own page. The cars are also important, so we have started a page, just for them. There is also a page listing the provisions and equipment we are planning on for the rally.

Sunday 4 March 2012

The Route




We are reviewing the following routes, in no particular order
Route One:- England - France - Germany - Czech Rep - Poland - Ukraine - Russia - Kazakhstan - Russia - Mongolia...
Route Two:- England - France - Germany - Austria - Hungary - Romania - Bulgaria - Turkey - Iran - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan - Kazakhstan - Russia - Mongolia...
Route Three:-England - France - Germany - Austria - Hungary - Romania - Bulgaria - Turkey - Georgia - Russia - Kazakhstan - Russia - Mongolia...

Update 5th March 2012






The Charity
Very exciting for us, we have selected the Australian charity we wish to support. In the end it was not that difficult to identify a most appropriate cause, and after some friendly discussions we have chosen the wonderful team at the The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, the children’s hospital for Western Australia. We are now proud supporters of the PMH Foundation. 
PMH is one of five Australian hospitals fundraising together under the Children’s Hospitals Foundation. The PMH website is:- http://www.pmhfoundation.com
We will now be spending much of our free time generating cash for this great cause.
You can use the PayPal link on the blog to contribute directly or e-mail us if you need more details on how to contribute, we can accept cash / cheques etc. More on the charity at the next update.
The Blog
We have an official blog and will use this to keep everybody updated on our preparations for the rally. We do intend to keep sending an update by e-mail as well, at least for the next few months.
The address for the blog is: http://ulaanbaatarorbust2013.blogspot.com.au/ for those less computer literate (like me!!) cut and paste this address into your browser, and it will direct you to our Blog, then make sure you save it as a favorite!! Once on the page, you will see a ‘followers’ link, and a follow by e-mail link, either link will ensure you are kept up to date with changes to the blog. You will get an e-mail whenever we add something to the blog.
The Sponsors
We have our first sponsor, a college from Neil’s time in Redhill (South of London, UK) has committed 500 of those Great British Pounds. What a brilliant start, and our thanks go to him. 
We will be exploring all options in the next 12 months for further sponsors, and will keep you all posted on our progress. If you are willing to help a good cause, that will attract considerable media interest please drop us a line.
Charity v Sponsorship
Keep it simple stupid.....
Any money raised for our Charity, goes directly to the Charity, we take zero commission. 
However, to help us fund the rally we are looking at sponsorship, each team (car) will have to find around $30,000 (Aus) which is a lot of money for anyone to self fund. 
If you would like further information on the Charity or Sponsorship please drop us an e-mail and we will happily discuss.
Help
How can you help make this a great success:-
  • Join in with the events we arrange. 
  • Become a supporter of our Blog.
  • Contribute to our charities. 
  • Sponsor the Teams. 
and most important of all
  • Spread the word to your friends and family !!!! (Special thanks to Neil’s Mum and step Dad for introducing the Blog to their friends in the UK)..
Fundraising Events 
There will be a schedule of events confirmed in the next month or so, our first will be a Bingo/Quiz night in Perth, dates and venue to be confirmed.
Many thanks to those individuals who have already approached us with ideas on how to generate money for our Charity. Please keep talking to us...
The E-Mail Updates
Some of you wont want to receive e-mails from us, or use the blog, in this case just drop us a quick e-mail at wombatskhan@gmail.com and we will remove your details.